46th
Annual Meeting
Purdue
University
March
17-18, 2000
MARCH 17 (Friday)
8:00-Registration,
Coffee, Rolls, Stewart 218
8:45Opening
remarks: Laura Olsen, President MWASPP,
University
of Michigan
9:00Regulation of phosphate transporters in plants
Uthappa T. Mukatira G and K.G. Ragothama, Purdue University
9:15Carbon export from the chloroplast at night
Sean WeiseG and Thomas Sharkey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
9:30Determining the molecular mechanisms of PTS2 protein import into peroxisomes
Tanya JohnsonG and Laura Olsen, University of Michigan
9:45A
low CO2 nonacclimating mutant in Chlamydomonas
Kyujung VanG and Martin H. Spalding, Iowa State University
10:00Regulation of root phototropism in Arabidopsis
Nicholas RuppelG and John Kiss, Miami University
10:15Break
10:45Seed biology of Eupatorium rugosum
Joann M. LauU
and David Lowell Robinson, Bellarmine College
11:00Cell specific gene expression in soybean
Martina StromvikG,
Vijaya Sundararaman and Lila Vodkin, University of Illinois
11:15Structure and expression of a hormonally regulated beta-expansin from soybean
Brian P. DownesG and Dring N. Crowell, IUPUI
11:30Trigonelline
biosynthesis in salt- and drought-stressed soybean (Glycine max).
Andrew
WoodF, Xinbo Chen and Youngkoo Cho, Southern Illinois University
11:45Purification of isoflavone binding proteins from the soybeanpathogen Phytophthora sojae.
Mary Connolly, Gwen Soule and Paul F. MorrisF, Bowling Green State University
12:00Lunch--Purdue Memorial Union, East Faculty Lounge
1:00Overexpression
of mitochondrial NADP+-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase: implications
for the reductive activation
of the alternative oxidase
Gordon R. GrayP, Alicia R. Villarimo and Lee McIntosh, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
1:15The ghost
variegation
mutant of tomato is homologous to the Arabidopsis immutans
mutant
Rino BaeG and Steve Rodermel, Iowa State University
1:30An Arabidopsis mutation affecting seedling plastid development
Charles LogsdonG and Roger Hangarter, Indiana University
1:45Chloroplast
mRNA stability and translation in the green alga Chlamydomonas
David
HiggsF, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
2:00Hunting for ripening-associated genes in a nonclimacteric fruit using a high throughput approach
Sang-Dong YooP and Steve Van Nocker, Michigan State University
2:15Cloning and initial characterization of a poly(A) ribonuclease from Arabidopsis thaliana
Jonathan Vogel
U, Mark Johnson and Pamela J. Green, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
2:30The alanine:glyoxylate
aminotransferase family in Arabidopsis thaliana
Aaron LiepmanG and Laura J. Olsen, University of Michigan
2:45Break
3:15Cloning the gene for the SRP receptor-alpha (SR-a) in barley aleurone layers
Rick NelsonU and Mark Brodl, Knox College
3:30Heat shock and secretion in petunia: transmitting tract cells and barley aleurone protoplasts
Sandra NavarreteU and Mark R. Brodl, Knox College
3:45Temperatureand
fatty acid composition affect in vitr translocation and fluidity
of barley aleurone ER-derived microsomes
Adam
R. WendeU and Mark
Brodl, Knox College
4:00Fucose-deficient Arabidopsis mutants: new tools to investigate the impact of altered xyloglucan structure on cell growth and wall architecture
Michael MadsonP, Gary Vanzin, Christophe Dunand, Wolf-Dieter Reite and Nicholas C. Carpita, Purdue University
4:15Cell wall architecture of the developing maize coleoptile
Nicholas C. CarpitaF,
Kim Findlay, Brian Wells, Douglas Shoue, Gareth Catchpole, Marianne Defernez,
Reginald H. Wilson, and Maureen C. McCann, Purdue University
4:30Studying membrane partitioning of ABA by differential scanning calorimetry: a biophysical approach
Michael KatzerG and William Stillwell, IUPUI
4:45Site-specific mutagenesis of the D1 Protein of Photosystem II yields insights to the stabilization of QB-
Sean PaddenG, Jun Minagawa and Antony Crofts, University of Illinois
5:00-5:30Business Meeting
6:30BANQUETPurdue Memorial Union, East Faculty Lounge
7:30SYMPOSIUMPurdue Memorial Union, East Faculty Lounge
Protein storage and deposition
Rick Vierstra
Howard Grimes
MARCH 18 (Saturday)
8:00-Coffee,
Rolls, Stewart 218
8:45Functional
analysis of Arabidopsis dynamin-like protein (ADL)
Byung-Ho KangG, Jim Busse and Sebastian Bednarek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
9:00Isolation
and characterization of a mutant with defects in limiting CO2
adaptation
Yingjun WangG and Martin H. Spalding, Iowa State University
9:15Carbohydrate regulation of leaf development
Adam Miller, Martin Spalding and Steve Rodermel, Iowa State University
9:30Disruption
of glycolate dehydrogenase gene in a high CO2 requiring mutant
HCR89 of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Yoshiko NakamuraP, Sarada Kanakagiri, Kyujung Van and Martin H. Spalding, Iowa State University
9:45The
induction of the DXP-MEP Pathway in an isoprene-emitting plant species
Sansun YehG and Thomas Sharkey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:00Floral
scent production in snapdragon: regulation of methylbenzoate biosynthesis
Natalia KolosovaG, Lisa M. Murfitt, Nina Gorenstein, Christine M. Kish and Natalia Dudareva, Purdue University
10:15Break
10:45Special Talk: Overview of Pioneer Hi-Bred International and selected R & D projects
Chung Ping Li, Trait and Technology Development, Pioneer Hi-Bred International
11:45Novel features of the XRN-family in Arabidopsis: multiple nuclear exoribonucleases and evidence for a cytoplasmic function for AtXRN4
James P. KastenmayerG
and Pamela J. Green, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
12:00Mutants of Arabidopsis defective in DST-mediated mRNA degradation
Mark A. JohnsonP, Miguel A. Perez-Amador and Pamela J. Green,
MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
12:15Announcement of Student Awards
12:30Lunch--Purdue Memorial Union, East Faculty Lounge
F Faculty presentation
P Postdoctoral presentation
G Graduate student presentation
U Undergraduate student presentation